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"Oh, mammy! oh, daddy! don't disappoint me," cried the girl. "Do do let me go, please, please." "Nora," said Mrs. O'Shanaghgan again, "I never saw you so unreasonable in your life; you are quite carried away. Your uncle, after long years, has condescended to send you an invitation, and you speak in this impulsive, unrestrained fashion.
"That we O'Shanaghgans are the proudest and oldest family in the county, and that there is scarcely an Englishman across the water who would not give all he possesses to change places with us." "You talk like a silly child," said Mrs. O'Shanaghgan; "and please remember that I am English." "Oh, mummy, I am so sorry!" said the girl.
O'Shanaghgan, suppressing an internal shudder at the thought of Biddy at the renovated Castle of O'Shanaghgan in her dirty pink dress with the flounces. "But, Miss Murphy," she continued, "I am sorry that I cannot ask you to stay. The Squire is too unwell to admit of our having friends at present." "Oh, glory!" cried Biddy, "and how am I to get back again?
"Well, now," said that worthy, "and what can I do for you, Miss O'Shanaghgan?" Nora looked very earnest and pleading. "My father is better," she said, "but not well enough yet to be troubled with business. I understand that you are doing some of his business for him, Mr. Finnigan." "Some, it is true," answered the gentleman, frowning as he spoke, "but not all, by no means all.
A dark time is near, and we implore your help. Come, come, Banshee it is the O'Shanaghgans who want you. It is Nora O'Shanaghgan who calls you now." The sound of a laugh came from the darkness behind her, and the next instant the startled girl saw the big form of Andy Neil approaching. "Don't you be frightened, Miss Nora," he said. "I aint the Banshee, but I am as good.
The outside car was ready at the door. Mrs. O'Shanaghgan was already mounted. Nora sprang up, and they were rattling off into the world, "to seek my fortune," thought the girl, "or rather the fortune of him I love best." The Squire, with his grizzled locks and his deep-set eyes, stood in the porch to watch Nora and her mother as they drove away.
Oh, come, Molly, I am going to be wild; I am going to give way." They both stepped outside on the broad gravel sweep. The moon was up, and it was shining over everything. In the moonlight Castle O'Shanaghgan looked very much as it had done before. The moon had always glorified the old place, and it glorified it still.
"Come now," he said, "we should like to hear your account of Castle O'Shanaghgan. Terence has told us all about it; but we should like to hear your version." "And a most lovely place it must be," said Mrs. Hartrick from the other end of the table.
The trap had been brought back by one of the numerous gossoons who abounded all over O'Shanaghgan, and Biddy and Nora had a few hours before the great secret expedition was to take place. And now the time had come. The girls had put on thick serge petticoats, short jackets, and little tight-fitting caps on their heads. There was always a breeze blowing round that extreme corner of the Atlantic.
You know how proud she is; how all these years she has determined to put a good face on things, and not to allow her relations in England to know the truth. I have followed her cue, and have been careful to make the very best of things at Castle O'Shanaghgan." "Oh, it is easy to tell lies," said Nora, with scorn.
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